Operations and Maintenance Manager RAMS Expertise

WS Atkins & Partners Overseas Engineering Consultants; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tax-free salary

Life insurance

Medical insurance

Annual leave balance

Company gratuity scheme

Discretionary bonus program

Annual flight contribution

Transportation & housing allowances

Employee wellbeing program

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis in Saudi Arabia seeks an Operations and Maintenance Manager to lead RAMS assurance, readiness, and lifecycle performance for railway assets across the programme. You will oversee RAMS across design, construction, testing, and handover, review reliability and safety analyses, and coordinate with operators and maintainers to optimize operation and maintenance strategies.

The role requires a degree in Engineering or Rail Operations, 15+ years in railway operations, and experience with

Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering, Rail Operations, or related discipline.
• Minimum 15 years’ experience in railway operations, maintenance, or RAMS management.
• Strong understanding of RAMS methodologies and systems assurance principles.
• Experience supporting commissioning and operational transition activities.
• Knowledge of asset management and maintenance planning processes.
• Familiarity with rail operational environments and maintenance facilities.
• Strong analytical and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with international railway safety standards preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead RAMS activities across design, construction, testing, and operational readiness stages.
• Review reliability, maintainability, availability, and safety analyses for operational assets.
• Coordinate operational readiness and maintainability reviews with operators and maintainers.
• Support life cycle cost optimization and asset performance improvement initiatives.
• Review maintenance strategies, spare parts planning, and operational procedures.
• Ensure operational requirements are integrated into engineering and construction activities.
• Participate in testing, commissioning, trial running, and handover activities.
• Support development of operational documentation, training plans, and asset acceptance processes.

Skills

RAMS management

Rail operations

Maintenance planning

Asset management

Stakeholder management

RAMS methodologies

Commissioning

Systems assurance

Safety standards

Education

Engineering / Rail Operations degree

Job description

Job Description

Our Transportation business brings together expertise in rail, highways, and local transport into a multidisciplinary team delivering innovative and sustainable mobility solutions. Within Rail, our Systems & Infrastructure capability provides leading expertise across signaling, telecommunications, control systems, and integrated operations. We combine technical excellence with a human-centered approach, ensuring that railway systems are designed for performance, reliability, safety, and long-term operability.

Overview

The Operations and Maintenance Manager will lead operational readiness, maintainability, reliability, and RAMS assurance activities to support safe and efficient asset operation throughout the programme lifecycle.

Your role

• Lead RAMS activities across design, construction, testing, and operational readiness stages.
• Review reliability, maintainability, availability, and safety analyses for operational assets.
• Coordinate operational readiness and maintainability reviews with operators and maintainers.
• Support life cycle cost optimization and asset performance improvement initiatives.
• Review maintenance strategies, spare parts planning, and operational procedures.
• Ensure operational requirements are integrated into engineering and construction activities.
• Participate in testing, commissioning, trial running, and handover activities.
• Support development of operational documentation, training plans, and asset acceptance processes.

About you

• Degree in Engineering, Rail Operations, or related discipline.
• Minimum 15 years’ experience in railway operations, maintenance, or RAMS management.
• Strong understanding of RAMS methodologies and systems assurance principles.
• Experience supporting commissioning and operational transition activities.
• Knowledge of asset management and maintenance planning processes.
• Familiarity with rail operational environments and maintenance facilities.
• Strong analytical and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with international railway safety standards preferred.

Rewards & benefits

• Tax-free salary.
• Life insurance coverage.
• Medical insurance.
• Annual leave balance.
• Company gratuity scheme.
• Discretionary bonus program.
• Annual flight contribution.
• Transportation & housing allowances.
• Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.

About AtkinsRéalis

We’re AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world’s infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We’re committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people. Find out more.

Worker Type Employee Job Type Regular

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.

Capabilities

Created by the integration of long-standing organizations dating back to 1911, AtkinsRéalis is a world-class engineering services and nuclear company dedicated to engineering a better future for our planet and its people. We create sustainable solutions that connect people, data and technology to transform the world’s infrastructure and energy systems. We deploy global capabilities locally to our clients and deliver unique end-to-end services across the whole life cycle of an asset including consulting, advisory & environmental services, intelligent networks & cybersecurity, design & engineering, procurement, project & construction management, operations & maintenance, decommissioning and capital. The breadth and depth of our capabilities are delivered to clients in strategic sectors such as Engineering Services, Nuclear and Capital.

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